'This is the restoration of American democracy', former Project 2025 tells FRANCE 24

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00:00Now, people are looking forward to the future in America here and what you've had thousands

00:06and thousands and thousands of Trump supporters who've poured into Washington, D.C. for this

00:11day.

00:12As you can see, I'm with one of them here.

00:14What did you make of Trump's speech today, sir?

00:17It was fantastic.

00:18This is what we've been praying for and working for for the last four years, really the last

00:23eight years.

00:24This is the promise to turn around America, make it great again, and the whole world will

00:29benefit from this.

00:30Now, you yourself, you just told me you're involved.

00:33You've been involved in Project 2025.

00:36Can you explain to our viewers what that is and what you hope to achieve with it?

00:39That's right.

00:40I was the director of Project 2025 and it was really a plan to help the next conservative

00:45president be ready on day one, today, in fact, to really move out and take over, reclaim

00:52the administrative state for the people.

00:54This is a popular sovereignty movement that's sweeping across the U.S., but really across

00:59the world.

01:00It's a plan for us to be able to put in place these common sense solutions and really make

01:07the will of the people felt here in Washington.

01:09So basically getting rid of government employees if they don't agree with Donald Trump?

01:14It's not getting rid of them.

01:15It's making sure that they understand who the boss is.

01:18We have three branches of government.

01:20He's the president and he's in charge of the executive branch.

01:24They can either work with the ideas that the people voted for.

01:27The people are ultimately the boss.

01:29We are of the people, by the people, for the people.

01:33So if a certain bureaucrat is against those plans, yes, that bureaucrat needs to step

01:39aside.

01:40And that's really what the reform is about.

01:41What would you say to people from Europe who've been looking at the U.S. and who've been concerned

01:46about U.S. democracy and the way things have been heading in recent years?

01:50Well, this is the best day for them.

01:52This is the restoration of American democracy.

01:55This is really putting the people back in charge.

01:58We've been under a tyranny and that's been played out over the last four years.

02:02People in Europe are suffering from it.

02:04They suffered from COVID.

02:06They suffered from a lot of this green extreme agenda.

02:10And now we're going to return to common sense solutions.

02:13So I guess I would say be not afraid.

02:16That's a phrase we find in a lot of places, namely the Bible.

02:20But you know, in terms of the second Trump, I'd say look forward to peace and prosperity.

02:25And it's going to break out throughout the world.

02:28And January the 6th, 2021, that wasn't something that people need to be concerned about when

02:33they see it?

02:34Not at all.

02:35I think actually they're going to learn the truth about what actually happened and the

02:38role of the government and the opposition parties in really fomenting that.

02:42And President Trump was speaking about that a little bit right after his swearing in.

02:46But you know, that narrative has crashed and burned.

02:50And I think we're going to be able to get back to equal justice under the law.

02:54That's really the key thing.

02:56We are a republic going on its 250th birthday.

03:00And it's so critical that we establish that truism, that equal justice under law.

03:09We understand that President Trump intends to pull the U.S. again out of the Paris climate

03:13accords.

03:14What do you think about that?

03:15Is that true?

03:16Is that something?

03:17Well, he will do it right now as it's configured.

03:21It's extremely unfair to the United States.

03:23It's also counterproductive.

03:24You know, when you have China putting 100 coal-fired energy plants online within a year,

03:32how is anything we do with reduction of CO2 emissions going to make a dent?

03:38It's really a fallacy and the common sense of Trump, I think, is going to really help

03:45the environment in the long run and will help the people and the economy in the immediate

03:49run.

03:50When Trump said today that he was saved by God in his speech, what do you think of that?

03:59I believe it, too.

04:00We prayed.

04:01I mean, a quarter of an inch really spared the free world.

04:05And I think that, you know, he isn't an outwardly religious man or hasn't been in public life.

04:11And I think that any time you survive that real near-death experience is profoundly going

04:18to change someone.

04:19And in him, I do believe the Almighty has played a role.

04:23And you know, this country is really one country under God.

04:27So we have a great – and it's not just a Christian God.

04:31We are people of faith.

04:33But it has, to be sure, a Judeo-Christian bedrock that built this.

04:39And our rights derive from God, not government.

04:42And that's what President Trump gets.

04:45Thank you so much for taking the time to speak to me today.

04:47And I hope you can get inside from the cold.

04:49Mon plaisir, je vous en prie.

04:52Merci beaucoup.

04:53Merci.

04:54Au revoir.

04:55Au revoir.

04:56So there you go.

04:57These are some of the views that we've been hearing all day from Trump supporters.

05:01This is the viewpoint that is now in government in America.

05:06And this is what the next four years, no doubt, will be about here.

05:11And it's just taken beginning in Washington, D.C. today.

05:14Catherine, thank you.

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